Chapter 2012

  When the vanguard battalion approached the village, the entire village was already engulfed in fire. The scorching air made the commanders and fighters have to stay a hundred meters away from the village, otherwise they would suffer from shortness of breath and eyesight.

   "Comrade Commander," the battalion commander called Ma Daqiang and reported what he saw: "The whole village has turned into a sea of ​​flames, and our people can't get close at all."

   Hearing what the battalion commander said, Ma Daqiang couldn't help but feel like a knife was twisting in his heart. According to his experience, under such a fierce fire, there would be no more living people in the village. He hesitated for a moment, and then ordered the other party: "Comrade Major, immediately lead your people around the village and continue to advance towards the city."

"Understood, Comrade Commander." Just as the battalion commander was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered an important matter, and added: "Also, we put down a large number of bombed tanks and artillery near the village. , and some trucks that are still burning. It seems that when the enemy was about to discard these weapons, they were worried about being exchanged by our army, so they chose to blow them up or burn them."

   "I see, Major." Ma Daqiang said, "I will report everything you see to my superiors."

   Soon, Ma Daqiang reported the situation encountered by the vanguard battalion to Onu Priyenko, and Onu Priyenko summarized it to the group army headquarters.

After reading the report of the 6th Guards Division, Sokov asked Ponejielin and Sidolin: "Comrade Deputy Commander, Comrade Chief of Staff, what do you think after reading the report of the 6th Guards Division? ?”

After Sukov finished speaking, Ponegerin said thoughtfully: "I think the reason why the enemy has blown up so many tanks, artillery and vehicles is because there is not enough fuel and ammunition for these technical equipment. It was they who planned to retreat into the city and fight us in the streets, and these things were of no use. While discarding them, they were worried about being captured by our army, so they simply blew them up."

"I agree with Comrade Deputy Commander," Sidolin echoed: "The enemy blows up discarded equipment to prevent it from falling into our hands and then become a weapon to attack them. This shows that the enemy intends to retreat In the city, fight a protracted street battle with us to achieve the purpose of containing the main force of our army."

Sokov agrees with Sidolin's analysis. Now around Bobruysk, three armies that are on the main offensive mission have been restrained. If the remaining 28th Army cannot get support from friendly forces for a long time With cooperation, the offensive will soon be weak, so the battle in Bobruisk must be resolved quickly.

"Three of the four group armies that our front army was the main offensive were held by the Germans near Bobruisk. If the city cannot be liberated for a long time, it will be impossible to deploy troops to strengthen the frontal offensive. The 28th Army that attacked alone I am afraid that the group army will be forced to stop and rest for a long time, so that the German army will have a chance to breathe." Sokov said: "In order to avoid this situation, we must liberate Bo in the shortest possible time. Bruisk, destroy the remaining German forces in the city."

   After taking a sip from the teacup on the table, Sokov turned to look at Sidolin and asked, "Comrade Chief of Staff, how is the progress of the 65th Army now?"

Hearing Sokov's question, Sidolin quickly replied: "The two divisions of the 65th Army launched an attack on the enemy's outlying positions from the south and southwest of the city. After a fierce battle, the southern defense The position has already been breached, and the troops responsible for the attack in this direction have advanced to the outskirts of the city. The battle in the southwest direction has fallen into a stalemate, and the two sides have launched repeated tug-of-war in order to seize the outer positions."

  Sokov nodded after hearing this, and continued: "Let the 6th Guards Division launch an attack as soon as possible, and see how the German resistance in this direction is, and then decide whether to deploy reinforcements."

"Comrade Commander, I suggest that regardless of the results of the 6th Guards Division's subsequent battles, the 3rd Infantry Division should be transferred first." Ponejielin waited for Sukov's words to come to an end, and promptly published his own opinion. Opinion: "If the 6th Guards Division is going well, the 3rd Infantry Division can be used to expand the breakthrough; if the attack is not going well, then the 3rd Infantry Division will take over from their attack."

  Sokov will not hesitate to adopt the suggestions of Ponejielin and Sidolin as long as they are reasonable. After listening to Ponegelin's words at this moment, I felt very reasonable, so I nodded in agreement: "Deputy commander, I think your proposal is good, so I will do as you said. Comrade chief of staff, immediately inform the infantry 3rd Division, order them to seize the time to move forward and rush to cooperate with the 6th Guards Division."

  As soon as Sidolin gave orders to the 3rd Infantry Division, he received calls from several other division commanders. Everyone knows that the 109th Infantry Division, which temporarily participated in the battle, actually annihilated the 35th Army of the German Army with the cooperation of friendly troops, and even the commander was captured. Seeing such feats made by the friendly army, the rest of the division commanders couldn't hold their breath. They called the headquarters one after another, and they all urgently asked their superiors to allow them to participate in offensive operations.

Facing the enthusiasm of the division commanders, Sidolin couldn't stand it anymore. He said to Sokov: "Comrade commander, you have seen that the fighting enthusiasm of these division commanders is unprecedentedly high, and they all asked me to fight. I don't even know how to answer them."

   "This is very easy to handle." Sokov said: "We will see how the 6th Guards Division and the 3rd Infantry Division perform later, and then decide whether to adjust the attack plan."

   After the task was assigned, Sokov sat down to drink tea and quietly waited for the latest battle report. At this moment, a staff officer was suddenly heard shouting: "Grab it, grab it, grab it quickly..."

  As the shouts sounded, the staff officers and communications soldiers in the entire headquarters became chaotic. Anyone who had no work stood up from their positions and looked down at something on the ground.

   Seeing the chaos in the headquarters, Sokov couldn't help frowning, and asked loudly: "What's going on, what are you messing about?"

   "Cat! Comrade Commander, it's a cat." A female communications soldier exclaimed excitedly, "A cat just ran in from outside."

   "Oh, a cat ran in?!" Sokov was excited when he encountered a cat running into the headquarters for the first time. He lowered his head and searched quickly on the ground: "Where is it?"

   "Here!" A staff officer not far away shouted: "Under the table of the discharge station!"

   "Everyone be quiet, don't make any more noise." Sokov raised his hands and shouted loudly: "If the cat is frightened, it will run around and break some of our lines, and it will be troublesome."

  Hearing Sokov's shout, all the people in the headquarters fell silent, looking at the table with the radio station.

  Sokov walked over slowly, bent down and looked towards the table, and sure enough, he saw a gray cat with a round face. He asked with interest: "Is this a blue cat?"

"No, Comrade Commander." The female messenger who had just screamed replied, "This is the Achaianji blue cat, also known as the Maltese cat. It is a good mouse catcher. In the past, a family in our village raised three such cats." Cats, within a radius of 300 meters of his house, there were no traces of mice or birds, and they were all caught by this kind of cat."

  Sokoff squatted by the table, carefully looked at the dodging cat, and found that its Russian blue cat has obvious physical characteristics, with a short and wedge-shaped head, a flat forehead, and a straight nose, which is very handsome. The body is slender, and the tail becomes thinner and thinner from the root to the tip, which is in harmony with the body shape. The ears are long and pointed, the soles of the feet are small and round, and the walking posture seems to be walking on tiptoes. Coupled with its silver-blue shiny short hair, it looks like an elegant lady.

  Although Sokov has never raised a blue cat in his later generations, has he never eaten pork or seen a pig running? He stood up and said in a positive tone, "I think this is a blue cat."

Before the female signal soldier could refute, Sidolin said from the side: "Comrade Commander is right. Although this kind of cat was first called Achaianji blue cat and later called Maltese cat, but last year, there were more cats. It is the Russian blue cat that the commander said. It is not an ornamental cat, but is specially used to catch mice. With this cat, the mice here in our headquarters may disappear."

   "Really, Comrade Chief of Staff?" The female signal soldier asked Sidolin a little curiously: "Is this cat really called the Russian Blue Cat now?"

   "It's true." Sidolin nodded and said, "I also heard it from a friend who works in the zoo when I went back to visit relatives last time. There should be nothing wrong."

  Sokov thought in his heart: Although the blue cats that everyone is familiar with in later generations are all British short blue cats, compared with the Russian blue cats, the Russian blue cats are handsome, and the British short blue cats are naive. It can be said that each has its own advantages.

  English short is bold and curious by nature, lively and active. It has strong adaptability, will not change due to changes in the living environment, does not like to lose its temper, does not bark and scratch things, and is very gentle towards its owner.

  Russian blue cats are quiet and shy by nature. They are afraid that strangers will not like to go out. They trust their owners very much and often try to please them. But if the owner is too affectionate with it, it will also cause inexplicable pressure, so feeding Russian blue cats needs to keep a certain distance and treat them patiently.

   "Comrade soldier," Sokov knew that cats were not suitable for keeping in the headquarters, so he said to the female signal soldier beside him, "I will leave this blue cat to you. You must raise it well, understand?"

"Really, Comrade Commander?" Hearing what Sokov said, the female signal soldier's eyes lit up immediately: "Do you really want me to keep this cat? This cat was bred to be chubby."

   After finishing speaking, the female soldier squatted down, stretched out her hand to the blue cat curled up in the corner, and said softly, "Cat, be good! Come to me, and I'll take you to eat something delicious!"

  The blue cat seemed to understand what the female soldier said, and it actually came out slowly from the corner, and kept kicking the female soldier's feet with its head. When the female communications soldier took out a hair rope from her pocket and tied it around its neck, it didn't struggle at all, and behaved very cooperatively.

  After the female messenger tied the hair rope, she took out a handful of bread crumbs from her pocket, put them in the palm of her hand, and stretched them out in front of the blue cat. The little guy put his nose close to smell it, and then began to lick it quickly. The bread crumbs in the female signal soldier's hand decreased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

   "Lena!" Sidolin said from the side: "Cats are not allowed in the headquarters. You can take it out later and find a place to lock it up."

   "Okay, Comrade Chief of Staff." The female signal soldier named Lena waited for the blue cat to finish eating the bread crumbs in her hand, then reached out to hug the cat, and was about to get up and leave the headquarters.

   At this moment, Ponegerin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly stopped Lena and said to her: "Comrade Lena, please give this cat a name."

"Yes, yes, yes," Pornejelin's words reminded Lena, she nodded and said, "This cat should be given a name." But the next moment, she was worried about the name: " But what should it be called?"

Seeing that Lena didn't know what to name the cat, Sidolin smiled and said to Ponegerin: "Comrade Deputy Commander, it seems that our Lena can't think of a name for the cat for the time being, or you can give me a name." What is the cat's name?"

  But Ponejielin returned the matter to Sokov: "Comrade Commander, I think it's up to you to choose the name."

   "Lena," Sokov knew that if he didn't name the cat, no one would choose it, so he reluctantly accepted the task. But before naming it, he asked Liena: "Is this a male cat or a female cat?"

  Lena dragged the blue cat by its armpit, lifted it up for a look, and then replied, "Comrade Commander, it's a female cat."

  After knowing the cat's gender, Sokov began to think about what to name the cat. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Look at Irina, the name means 'peace and tranquility'. Our ongoing Patriotic War will end sooner or later. Enjoy a peaceful life in an age of peace."

"A good name, a good name." As soon as Sukov finished speaking, Ponejielin said loudly: "This name is well received. This war will end sooner or later, and those of us who survive will all live in peace. era, enjoy the peaceful life that belongs to us.”

"Irina, Irina." Lena brought the blue cat closer to her face and touched the tip of the blue cat's nose with the tip of her nose. Do you like this name?"

   After Liena finished speaking, the blue cat let out a meow, as if agreeing with Liena's statement, and the entire headquarters suddenly burst into cheerful laughter.

After Lena left with the cat named Irina in her arms, Sidolin slapped her hands vigorously a few times, and after everyone's attention was focused on herself, she said to everyone: "Comrades, leisure time It's over, let's all go back to our respective posts, we still have a lot of work to do. Only when the German invaders are defeated can we return to the peaceful age and enjoy our peaceful life."

  Hearing what Sidolin said, all the staff officers and communications soldiers in the headquarters returned to their posts one after another to continue their work.

  After returning to the table, Sokov asked Sidolin: "Comrade Chief of Staff, is there any latest news from the 6th Guards Division?"

   "Not yet, Comrade Commander." Sidolin shook his head and said, "But I think soon, they will bring us good news in a short time."

  (end of this chapter)